FY 25 LHHS Appropriations Request for Bone Health and Osteoporosis

April 18, 2024

The Honorable Tammy Baldwin, Chair
The Honorable Shelley Moore Capito, Ranking Member
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies
Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Chair Baldwin and Ranking Member Capito,

On behalf of our 13 national aging, health, family caregiver and bone health organizations, we are writing to request the Subcommittee’s continued attention to a common, costly but often overlooked women’s health crisis as you consider fiscal year 2025 appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services. One in two women and one in four men over the age of 50 will suffer a bone fracture in their lifetime due to the chronic disease osteoporosis. According to a 2021 Milliman report analyzing most recent (2016) claims data, 1.8 million Medicare beneficiaries, 70 percent of them women, suffered approximately 2.1 million osteoporotic fractures.

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